[ RadSafe ] The High Price of Nuclear Waste

[Jerry Cohen]

Dear Dan,
In reviewing the many billions or dollars that have been squandered over the last 50 years in seeking an acceptable solution to the NWM problem up to and including the Yucca Mountain fiasco, one could logically concluded that the problem poses an immense danger to public health and safety. However, no rational technological risk assessment has ever shown that this to be the case. The general public seeing the governments vast expenditure could only conclude that NWM must pose a threat of unprecedented dimensions.
The history of government sponsored NWM programs indicates that the technological community has been more than happy to spend this funding doing largely nonsensical studies which generally "revealed" that further study was needed. As this gravy train proceeded, it had the logical effect of amplifying public apprehension. So, we are left much poorer, but apparently no wiser. I would like to think that we may have learned something useful from it all this. but see no evidence that this might be the case.

Jerry



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From: Dan W McCarn <hotgreenchile at gmail.com>
To: Jerry Cohen <jjcohen at prodigy.net>; Mark Miller <marklmiller at comcast.net>; radsafe at radlab.nl
Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 9:39:50 AM
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] The High Price of Nuclear Waste

Dear Jerry:

Having worked on performance assessment of WIPP and peer review at Yucca
Mountain, preliminary work on the Nebraska LLRW site, waste management &
decommissioning missions in Mexico and Czech Republic for the IAEA,
commercial uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a couple of years in-country on a
Chernobyl project, and assessment of other areas due to anthropogenic
interaction with naturally occurring uranium deposits, I would have to
answer that I see no engineering, geological, or hydrological issues that
would prevent safe disposal of nuclear waste.

However, having been involved in Superfund sites, NRC litigations, civil
litigations involving hazardous materials, and the long-term licensing
issues of mining projects, there are formidable regulatory, legal and public
opinion issues related to any type of hazardous material management be they
chemical or nuclear.

So to repeat: I see no engineering, geological, or hydrological issues that
would prevent safe disposal of nuclear waste for an appropriate site.

Dan ii

--
Dan W McCarn, Geologist
3007 S. St. Francis Drive #818
Santa Fe, NM 87505
+1-505-310-3922 (Mobile - New Mexico)
HotGreenChile at gmail.com (Private email)


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of Jerry Cohen
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 15:51
To: Mark Miller; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] The High Price of Nuclear Waste

Just out of curiosity, if we set aside  political and public relations
considerations, does anyone on Radsafe really believe that the disposal of
nuclear waste would pose a serious threat to public health and safety???

Jerry Cohen






________________________________
From: Mark Miller <marklmiller at comcast.net>
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 7:00:25 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] The High Price of Nuclear Waste

Link:



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/04/tracking-taxes-high-price-nuclear
-waste/?test=latestnews



by William La Jeunesse   - FOXNews.com  - November 04, 2009

Tracking Your Taxes: The High Price of Nuclear Waste

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